Preparation

Preheat oven to 350°F. Core apples with corer. Stand apples up and make 4 evenly spaced vertical cuts starting from top of each apple and stopping halfway from bottom to keep apple intact. Brush inside of apples with lemon juice and stand apples in a 9-inch ceramic or glass pie plate.

Toss together apricots, currants, pecans, brown sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg in a bowl. Rub softened butter into dried-fruit mixture with your fingers until combined well, then pack center of each apple with mixture. Put a piece of remaining butter on top of each apple. Pour cider and vanilla around apples and cover pie plate tightly with foil.

Bake in middle of oven, basting once, until apples are just tender when pierced with a fork, about 40 minutes. Remove foil and continue to bake until apples are very tender but not falling apart, 20 to 30 minutes more.

Transfer to serving dishes and spoon sauce over and around apples. Serve with dollops of yogurt.

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I made these for Christmas dessert. Very easy and very good! The Maple yogurt really makes it special. I didn't get the slicing the apples halfway down but it didn't hurt the result and probably made it easier to eat.

Wow, I forgot to add brown sugar and
these were still delicious. Used
dried cranberries instead of
currents and used braeburn apples.
Can't believe that a baked apple
without any sweetener - no sugar,
maple syrup, honey - could still be
this good! Certainly the healthiest
baked apples I've ever made. Next time I will add just a touch of sugar.

I made this with dried cranberries instead of the currants and walnuts instead of the pecans, just because I didn't have what was required on-hand. YUM. Easy and satisfying. I think another reviewer said they like this for breakfast, which I can easily see.

This recipe is excellent. I used Gala apples as the recipe indicates, and I thought that they worked very well. I used a melon baller to scoop out the core, and I packed a lot of stuffing into each apple (I think I doubled the stuffing recipe, but I didn't quite use all of it). Everyone loved them.

Most of this recipe was good--the apples smelled wonderful while they were baking and the stuffing tasted delicious. I was disappointed in the apples themselves though--I used Gala's and they seemed very bland. I would make it again using different apples.

I loved it. I have made variations of this many times, but the yogurt makes a diffrence. This is one of those recipes you can pull out of things you have hanging around in the kitchen. I made this for a High Tea I did and it was the favorite.

This is a quick and easy dessert that dazzles! I made a double batch and did the second one with dried sour cherries. The yogurt was a great low fat touch that made me feel less guilty about the sugar!